kinetosis
- noun
- /kɪˈnɛtoʊsɪs/
- Specialized
:
cinetosis
- Many people experience kinetosis while traveling by car or airplane.
Examples
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She always carries ginger candies to help with her kinetosis during long trips.
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To prevent kinetosis, it's advisable to focus on the horizon when feeling nauseated.
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Kinetosis—motion sickness—is another.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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3.0
Feeling dizzy and sick when you travel in cars, boats or planes
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3.0
A feeling of being sick and dizzy when you travel in a car
Antonyms
How Sick
Surface Forms
Morphology
kinetosis = kinetic (opaque) = kinet + osis
The combining form 'kinet-' and the medical suffix '-osis' are not productive or familiar to average learners, so the meaning 'motion sickness' cannot be reliably inferred from the parts.
Etymology
Kinetosis comes from Greek parts kine- and -osis, with kine- from kinesis meaning 'movement' and -osis meaning 'a condition'. So, like the word kinetic, which means 'moving', kinetosis is a 'movement condition', that is, motion sickness that makes you feel dizzy or sick.